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Criminal Records Podcast

Demetria Spinrad and Isaac Meyer

Criminal Records Podcast is a history show exploring the weird history of crime and punishment, from the earliest recorded murder case to the origins of laws that are in effect tod...

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Episode list

143

  • September 26, 2024

    1 hr 10 min

    Mickey Cohen

    Mickey Cohen had friends in high places, from celebrities to televangelists to the LAPD. So what happened when one of the nation's most notorious mobsters tried to file his taxes a...

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  • September 5, 2024

    1 hr 4 min

    Mickey Cohen, part 1

    It's an illegal gambling, Nazi-punching, tax-paying good time with Mickey Cohen, a gangster who rose through the ranks during one of America's most infamous eras of organized crime...

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  • August 15, 2024

    1 hr 15 min

    Sovereign Citizens, part 2

    As the internet creates new unmoderated spaces for ideas to spread, the sovereign citizen movement moves on to new audiences and finds a lot of angry divorced dads who don't want t...

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  • August 1, 2024

    1 hr 11 min

    Sovereign Citizens, part 1

    Don't feel like paying your taxes? Want to start your own posse? Still mad about the gold standard? Looking for an excuse to blame all your problems on the Jews? Have we got a lega...

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  • July 18, 2024

    1 hr 8 min

    The Principality of Hutt River

    When you're unhappy about the price of wheat, there's only one solution: Send a telegraph to the Australian government declaring war. Sources, show notes, and some pictures from a ...

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  • July 11, 2024

    1 hr 5 min

    The James Flint Incident

    When an Englishman with the rare ability to speak Mandarin Chinese got into a dispute with a corrupt local official in Zhejiang, he took his complaints all the way to the top, kick...

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